Ryougi Shiki (Saber)

Ryougi Shiki (Saber) is a limited servant which is available in a Campaign Pickup Summon.

Best described as a survivalist, Void Shiki obtains this role thanks to her third skill’s heal, likely the best self-healing skill (in terms of magnitude compared to cooldown) in the game. She is also particularly useful in a stage with many mobs, as her AoE NP has a chance to instant kill each opponent, and as she is Arts-oriented, can be pretty spammable in the correct teams. Her NP’s built-in debuff removal is also highly valuable in certain stages, and greatly benefit Servants with demerit (such as pre-NP upgrade Jeanne d’Arc).

However, Shiki also has quite a lot weaknesses across all fields, making her somewhat unnoticeable compared to her Assassin version. The first and most noticeable is that her NP, being unupgraded, deals mediocre damage. Secondly, despite possessing a good self-heal skill, having no defensive skill means that she has to completely rely on allies to be able to survive an opponent’s NP. Furthermore, even the healing skill has an NP charge reduction demerit, which lessens its versatility unless Shiki is at NP2 and up.

• AoE instant kill chance
• High sustainability
• Debuff removal to team

• Mediocre NP damage
• No hard defensive skill
• Heal skill’s demerit is somewhat of a problem at NP1

Void Shiki is best used alongside Arts-oriented damage support Servants, in order to somewhat make up for her low damage. It may also be a good idea to include an ally with a party-wide defensive skill, to cover her lack of hard defensive skill. In combat, Shiki’s first two skills should be used whenever she is about to perform her NP, while her healing skill should be used as needed - preferably on non-NP turns, in order to not screw up her timing.

Mukushiki: Kara no Kyoukai deals damage to all opponents, and has a chance to instantly kill the affected units. It also removes all debuffs from Shiki’s party. While mediocre in terms of damage and unreliable in instant-killing, this NP’s debuff removal is a boon for Servants such as Jeanne d’Arc, before the latter’s NP upgrade. The instant kills may also come in handy against higher-HP mobs, though it is better to rely on it as little as possible.

This CE type aims to fix Shiki’s low NP damage - something especially important as she relies on it to do damage. In the case of Black Grail, the HP demerit is more than countered by Shiki’s heal.

The main benefit of using this type of CE is that they also benefit Shiki’s normal cards - thereby increasing her overall performance - while still benefiting her NP, through both damage and NP gain. It has to be noted, however, that the damage increase will be less than with NP damage up Craft Essences.

This CE type turns enhances her formidable healing skill even further, meaning she would rarely need outside healing to survive. Unfortunately, her lack of evasion remains a glaring weakness.

Deal DEF-ignoring damage to all enemies
Remove Debuffs for all allies
[Overcharge] Chance to inflict Death to all enemies

Priority: 1 > 3 > 2

• Mystic Eyes of Death Perception C

  Increasing Shiki’s Arts performance, allows her to ignore Invincibility and Evasion effects for one turn, as well as decreasing the instant death resistance of all enemies. Her primary buffing skill, this skill should generally be leveled first, allowing it to keep up with Arts teams’ fast NP cycle.

• Cloud Shine B

  As the mental debuff resistance buff is mostly a bonus, this skill would be used mainly for the level up - which is somewhat low in percentage. As the least contributing skill in Shiki’s skillset, this skill should be leveled last.

• Yin Yang A

  Heals Shiki for a large amount of HP, at the cost of slightly reducing her NP gauge. With the demerit in mind, this skill’s heal would only become significant at around skill level 5-6, which means that leveling it should be a priority.

Available from the start
Apply Sure-Hit for yourself (1 turn)
Increase your Arts Card effectiveness for yourself (1 turn)
Decrease Death Resist for all enemies (1 turn)

Unlocks after 1st Ascension
Increase your ATK (3 turns)
Increase your Mental Debuff Resist (3 turns)

Unlocks after 3rd Ascension
Restore your HP
[Demerit] Decrease your NP Gauge by 10%

With a balanced QAABB deck, Shiki deals decent damage through her normal attacks, aided by her second skill’s attack up. However, the skill alone isn’t nearly enough for her to make the most of the two Buster cards. As with most Arts-oriented damage dealers, this means that she is reliant on her NP to deal damage, which leaves her command card composition somewhat wanting.

Kara no Kyoukai (The Garden of Sinners) event

Rashoumon event (Ibaraki Douji event)

Murder at the Kogetsukan

Inheritance of Glory